Living for another time and another place

Artificial Missions

Here’s a really good article about how how the work of missions is becoming increasingly humanitarian and the Gospel is being treated as an afterthought:

But the term “missions” itself now carries with it a negative connotation, even in politically and theologically conservative circles. Christians today typically travel abroad to serve others, but not necessarily to spread the gospel.

He calls these workers “vacationaries,” those who idea are that missions is primarily about service and humanitarian needs, not first the Gospel.

Jonathan Edwards

"The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven fully to enjoy God is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands or wives or children, or the company of earthly friends are but shadows; God is the substance. These are but the scattered beams; God is the sun. These are but streams; God is the ocean."